Some governors from the northeast U.S. and premiers from eastern Canada on Monday called for the end of the trade war between the U.S. and Canada and a successful renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement as they gathered in Vermont for an annual meeting.<p>Despite the dispute between …

Apple CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump met for dinner last night, according to a tweet from the president. While details of the meeting are unclear at this point, it’s likely that tariffs were a central point of conversation…<p>In a tweet ahead of the dinner last night, Trump explained that he …

<i>“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.” —</i> <i>Ralph Waldo Emerson</i><p>The Paul Manafort trial has degenerated into a mud-slinging contest between President Trump’s former campaign chairman and his longtime deputy, Rick Gates, who has turned state’s witness. Gates testified that Manafort …

<i>Good Thursday. Want this in your inbox every morning? Sign up here.</i><p><b>Everyone wants to know where Tesla’s cash will come from</b><p>Elon Musk’s declaration that he’s (potentially) taking his electric carmaker off the public markets has <i>everyone’s</i> attention, from Wall Street to regulators. The big question: …

On Friday, Beijing announced new tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. goods — prompting new U.S. threats to ratchet up tariffs on Chinese exports to the United States. These are just the latest volleys in the trade war sparked by the Trump administration’s announcement to put tariffs on some $200 billion …

For the first time in a year, the value of iron and steel imported into the United States has declined, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Friday. At the same time, a broad swath of articles made from iron and steel products grew at the slowest pace in a year.<p>What the data also showed …

From Trump's economy, to childbirth death rates, to foreign aid to Venezuela, our readers sound off on the latest headlines.<p><i>Letters to the editor:</i><p>President Donald Trump has widely and loudly boasted of an economic revival of epic and historic proportions. Make no mistake, the economy today is …

Protective tariffs might work when a nation starts to industrialize, but they may be disastrous for an already industrialized country that is subject to rules embedded in a global trading system that can impose countermeasures.<p>If White House trade adviser Peter Navarro (Letters, July 27) believes …